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    The Aesthetics of Music

    “aisthesthai’ - perceive sensuously

    Kant – Sublime – capacity of music to awaken in us a sense of our limited place within
    nature and the universe

    Schiller – German Philospher and Dramatist (After French Revolution and “terrors”)
    “The arts are a civilising force within Society”

    The Romantic Aesthetic


    Kant had no taste
    1800 – Music had a higher status
    Music = Language

    Hegel – Kants ideas but applying historical context to it.

    Wagner’s Aesthetic
    Wrote so much prose and essays about music and its history.
    Wagner thinks symphony and opera will die out
    - Symphony is too pure / suffocated with the trans-art nature

    Schopenhauer
    Jaded view of love – shagging = snare/trap

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